Thursday, January 14, 2010

Jennie has an awesome sketch featured this week over at StampTV.com. It is a great sketch to help you use those small images you may have. I always struggle to use them. So here was my opportunity and I love how this turned out.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Each artist was asked to design their project by drawing inspiration from these photos of the AMAZING Christmas Cookie Bouquet the CSS Team sent to Gina's DT Coordinator Jessica Fick:

I decided to use the snowmen cookies as my Inspiration. The cookies reminded me of the cute little snowmen in the set Winter Friends. I like the colors blue, red and white together. So I went with that color scheme and added a little Kraft in the mix because I just love that color. :o) The sentiment is from the Warm and Wonderful set. Here is the front of my card:

And here is the inside:

You can click on the images for a close up. Now onto the rest of the hop...

Click on these links to see what the participating Designers have prepared for us tonight:

Friday, January 01, 2010

Well, Melanie Muenchinger has invited several designers to participate in a blog hop to celebrate her TWO year anniversary of designing stamps for Gina K Designs. She is an amazing artist and paper crafter. A true genius! The set I've been asked to used in my project is School, Sports, Spirit. This is the set for which I was a guest designer when it was released a few months ago. I thought since we are having ice and snow type weather in Pennsylvania this New Year's Eve, I would make a card with an icy theme. I used the pair of ice skates and the Perfect Match sentiment to make an icy romatic card. I made my own glitter card stock with the Baja Breeze using VersaMark ink and some glitter embossing powder. It really looks "cool" in real life. I also decorated the inside. The silver ribbon with X's came from the packaging my boss gave my Christmas present in. The box was gorgeous and I knew I just had to re-purpose the packaging somehow. LOL! Here are the photos of my card. You can click on the photos for a larger view. The rest of the blog hop details are listed below the photos.

Melanie Muenchingeris celebrating two years of blogging and illustrating for Gina K Designs, and today she has invited 25 designers and YOU to join the party! First hop through the following designers' blogs using every set she has created since January 2008, from the first to the 25th! Then go to Melanie's blogto leave a comment for a chance to win a number of different prizes! So let's get hopping!

Finally,Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too!You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of
winning a prize by creating your own projectwith any one of Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here.